Crossword-Solution: RAPIDE 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

CHAPTER XI IN THE RUE ST.-DOMINIQUE Arriving in Paris at the highly inconvenient hour of 8 A.M., our _rapide_ deposited its breakfastless and grumpy passengers on the platform of the Gare de Lyon, washed its hands of us with the final formality of collecting our tickets, and turned us forth into a gray, foggy morning to seek the food and shelter adapted to our purses and tastes.

During their leisurely progress through France and Italy, they must have enjoyed opportunities of studying the real life of these countries which are denied the passengers in a rapide, jammed in amongst a cosmopolitan crew in the prosaic atmosphere of dining and sleeping cars, and scarcely bestowing a passing glance on the country through which they are being whirled.

Once, a year before, a Frenchman who occupied a seat next to her daily for a month lost over a quarter of a million sterling, and one night threw himself under the Paris _rapide_ at the long bridge over the Var.

Lui, n’avait que la notion d’un éloignement effroyable qui augmentait toujours; mais il en avait la notion très nette, en regardant de haut ce sillage, bruissant, rapide, qui fuyait derrière; en comptant depuis combien durait cette vitesse qui ne se ralentissait ni jour ni nuit.

Tout près des marins, arrêtés net, elles s’enfoncent dans le sol inondé de la rizière, chacune avec un petit flac de grêle, sec et rapide, et un léger éclaboussement d’eau.